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Monday, October 31, 2011

Pilgrims & Indians

With I week landing early in November, it’s perfect to start getting ready for Thanksgiving with some fun activities with Pilgrims and Indians (of course, you can explain the term Native Americans, too).

Read “The Story of Thanksgiving” by Nancy J. Skarmeas … I love these books. There are several of them. They’re simple and do a great job explaining on a kid’s level.

Simple Indian Headband

Place a long piece of colorful duct tape sticky side up on the table.

Give the kids several colorful craft feathers to choose from.

Place the quill (stem?!) of the feathers on the sticky tape.

Top with another long piece of duct tape … sticky side down.

Measure around your preschooler’s head and use one more piece of matching duct tape to secure the headband at the right size!

Learning to Plant Corn … also a Treat!

Read a simple book about Squanto, a friend to the pilgrims, who showed the Indians how to plant corn and other seeds, by adding a fish to the hole (as the fish rotted, it became natural compost adding nutrients to the soil … great for the seeds to grow!)

Mix up a batch of chocolate pudding and pour into individual serving bowls.

Crumble chocolate graham crackers and spread on top of the pudding for dirt.

Use the end of a wooden spoon to make a hole in the “dirt.”

Drop in a candy corn (corn seed) and a swedish fish or goldfish cracker. Cover the hole with “dirt.”

1 comment:

I can't wait to make these Indian headbands. Everyone else at the school is making the traditional construction paper ones and I'm excited to have my little class in their snazzy red ones with bright real feather!